This is for the Dubai office. August 2016: a friend working at Mercer Dubai sent in my resume to Talent Management and Information Solutions department October 2016: received LinkedIn invite from HR manager; later in the month: first interview with Principal of department - both agreed that it went very well. After some following up with HR... February 2017: HR manager told me that there will be a final round of interviews + excel exercise April 2017: second interview with consultant; decision makers asked him to test my thinking process; missed some key steps but consultant assured me that he would write a great review for me. Went well overall After some following up with HR... Rejected! I was disappointed because the interviews went well. Even more disheartened and irritated because as an HR consulting firm that provides their clients with best practices Mercer Dubai should have been more considerate with their expectations and correspondance with candidates. Hypocritical that they led me on when their goal is to improve employees' morale and attrition rates.

I attended a mingler where I was able to meet some of the representatives. Then two weeks later I received a 15-minute phone call. What was difficult was that I wasn't notified about whether or not I advanced to the next round, until the day before the full interview. So I booked the time off and yet didn't receive the interview. From a conversation I had with an employee of the company afterwards I suspect the phone interviews were done by a junior employee, who wasn't very knowledgeable. This more senior employee was surprised that I didn't advance to the next round but the position had already been filled.